I like this chapter, personally, I think it's cute. Good ol' Dem-Dems. Yeah, I don't have much else to say that won't send me into a rant. My advice: stay away from Geometry and Chemistry unless you are a flippin' genius and are awesome at math.
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Chapter Ten: First Mission
–Third Person POV–
Demyx walked down the long halls of the castle looking for Kat after reviewing his orders a few more times for good measure.
"Man, this is gonna take forever and I have to get going, like, right now." He ran a hand through his spiked blonde hair and then a light bulb sparked to life above him. (Figuratively, of course.)
Summoning his sitar, he struck a few chords and a moment later, a group of lesser Dancer Nobodies appeared skating toward the musician.
"What's up, boss?" one asked.
"Are you going to practice with us again?" asked another.
"Not today, girls, I've got a mission." A groan emitted from the group. Demyx went on. "But I was wondering if you could help me find someone. That Kat chick I keep talking about? Short, brown hair, brown eyes? Think you can snag her?"
"Sure thing, boss." And with that, they scattered down different halls.
–My POV–
I was just finishing getting dressed when there was a knock on Larxene's...uh, my door now, I guess. I opened my door but no one was there. I would have blamed it on that prankster Roxas but he wasn't here anymore.
When I slid out into the hall, I was suddenly scooped off my board by a bunch of Dancer Nobodies and carried down a hall.
"What are you doing?! Put me down!" I shrieked, wriggling atop the many pairs of hands.
Rounding a corner, the one in front called, "Boss, we snagged Kat!"
With that, I was dropped (none too gracefully) on the floor and Dems replied, "Thanks girls," with a rock star smile before they skated away.
He picked me up by my waist. "Sorry about that, they tend to take things a little too literally sometimes. You OK?"
"Just fine," I answered, playfully glaring.
"Good." He kissed my cheek and I smiled.
Most girls would blush if a cutie like Demyx kissed them but not me. Well, not right now anyway. It's kind of like an insiders' joke for us. After I jokingly told him I loved him, it became our game to say 'I love you' and give a kiss. Why is this a joke? It's funny because neither of us can feel emotions.
I give him bonus points if he can actually get me to blush because, as I've said before, I can't feel embarrassment that much. So far he's only managed to get me once when he planted a kiss on my lips. It was my fault because I turned my head so we just laughed afterwards.
"I gotta go to the Underworld today, wanna come?" he asked.
"Heck yeah!" I cried, bouncing excitedly.
Demyx opened a portal and bowed slightly. "Ladies first."
"'kay," I leaned against the wall and waited. When he realized what I meant, he frowned his way into the cutest pout I have ever seen.
"That's not funny."
I snickered. "I thought it was."
Demyx yanked on my arm and shoved me through the portal. He picked me up again on the other side when I discovered I could form my atom board. "You can't use your powers here, yet."
I leaned against the wall behind me suddenly feeling a lot more vulnerable. Dems looked a little concerned but I brushed it off.
"OK, well I have to go get something and then I'll be back," he said. I nodded and he headed up the hall behind me.
The room I was in had a rock formation in front of me and a thing that looked like a gate to my right. I think it looked like stalactites and stalagmites that had grown together. Fog flowed through there and out the other end of the room.
Little cloud-like balls of light floated around me and, considering this was the Underworld, I figured they were spirits. I smiled at them, even if they weren't aware of it. You could never be too careful in places like this.
On the left wall was a big crack, green light and some fog drifted through it.
I'm not sure how long it was but I'd guess maybe an hour before Demyx came back and helped me up. As we were preparing to leave, there was a clink! noise like from armor and I stayed by the wall while Dems went to the green crack to see what it was.
As he stepped through, a boy with brunette hair walked into the room. I pulled my hood up and watched a duck and a dog-man thing come in to inspect the room.
About that time, Demyx dashed back into the room, running directly toward the threesome. The boy drew a blade, one shaped...like a key. The Keyblade? Sora?
"Run! Run away!" Demyx yipped and at the last second ducked to the side, opened a portal, gripped my arm, and drug me through.
When I focused, we were in a cavern with some murky water, a green puddle, and three pathways, one of which went up to the Colosseum. (1)
"What was that all about?" I laughed.
"Heartless. Figured I'd leave them to the Keyblade Master," Demyx explained, grinning.
"So that was Sora!" I clarified. But then Roxas...Where was Roxas?
"Let's go," Dems said, helping me onto his back. We decided to take the path that didn't lead to the Colosseum and was opposite the one we had just come from.
"Hey!"
Dems whirled around on the voice and we spied a guy that was a cross between an actual human and a goat with red hair.
"Uh-oh," Demyx mumbled.
"Got it?" I whispered.
Demyx took a hold of my foot and spun when the guy was close enough, conking him on his head. The goat dude was knocked out and hopefully he would think seeing us was just a dream when he came to.
We entered our next destination through a door with blue zig zags across it and found another room with foggy floors and only one visible pathway across the room. Dems started to walk toward it when we suddenly tumbled through the floor which, as it turns out, was just fog. His hand shot up and managed to grab the edge of the ledge we had been standing on a moment before.
"Wow, who woulda thought that was coming, huh?" he chuckled, relieved.
The fall to the ground wasn't very far and Demyx landed on his feet but he had to set me down so he could work a kink out of the shoulder of the arm that had saved us.
Unfortunately, we weren't out from under the ledge and a rock we had knocked loose fell and cracked Demyx on the head.
He stumbled forward and yelped while I laughed at first and then cooed, "Oh, are you OK?"
"Yeah, let's just get out of here," he grumbled, taking me up again. A couple turns later, I was lost but Demyx decided this was where we were going to stop.
"So what do we still have to do?" I inquired of the musician as he inspected a wall that, I guess, could be a door.
"We have to fight Sora."
"What? If we were supposed to fight him, why didn't you do that a few minutes ago when we saw him?" I demanded.
"Are you insane? Take on Sora and Heartless at the same time?" I stayed silent. "Nice job knocking that guy out by the way." I grinned.
"So...if our powers don't work, how are we supposed to fight Sora?"
"Oh," Demyx waved a hand dismissively. "Don't worry about that. I got it covered. I went and got the Olympus Stone."
"What?" I yelled. "You stole something from the Gods on Olympus?" I wouldn't have been so worried if it was from some normal people but I was in enough trouble with higher authorities already.
"Not stole. Borrowed with the intent of taking it whether permission is granted or not," Demyx rattled off. "Besides, this will bring Sora running."
I cleared my throat and pointed behind Bubbles to the brunette who had just entered.
"Huh?" Demyx turned around. "Ah! You!"
He lowered his hood and put a hand to his face as if thinking. I stayed back. It was his mission and I couldn't interfere. "Wait a minute...Roxas?"
We both looked at the blonde but Sora spoke, "Excuse me?"
"Roxas?" Demyx said more clearly and then dropped his shoulders. "Oh, it's no use." I think he was talking to me.
He took a cue card out of his pocket and began to read. "Let's see...If subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition. Right. Did they ever pick the wrong guy for this one."
I think he was still talking to me indirectly. I snickered when he read the cue card. He didn't need to, he was just being a smart aleck to Xemnas who always tells him to use it if he forgets what to do. He probably did it to throw Sora off, too.
"You're bizarre," the Keyblade Master commented. I guess it worked.
Demyx dug the Olympus Stone out of his pocket.
The dog-man thing announced in a comical voice, "He must be the thief."
"Now that's just plain rude," Dems pouted. He held the Stone above his head and a light encircled both of us. I giggled, feeling rejuvenated and used my atom board to move out of the way when Dems summoned his sitar.
The fight wasn't very long. Bubbles blocked Sora when he got past some of his water clones and then conjured up more. In the end, I think he made a hundred before Sora came around behind and hacked at him and then Goofy, the dog-man thing ( as I learned from when they were healing each other), whacked him up front while Donald, the duck, cast a lightning spell.
"Demyx!" I called out when he fell to one knee, the Stone dropping from his pocket and Sora backed off to catch a breather.
I didn't bother to pick up the Stone since we wouldn't be here long enough to use it anymore. Instead, I slid up behind him and used some of my atoms to help him up. Sora suddenly jumped up and charged at us, intent on finishing us off. I grabbed Demyx's sitar and spun around to face the Keyblader before striking a chord. A stream of water shot out and blasted the brunette boy onto his rump.
I quickly pulled Dems up and handed him the instrument. "Hurry up, I can't make a portal."
Demyx did so, holding the shoulder he had strained earlier when we fell and said one last thing. "Roxas, come back to us."
–Back at the Castle–
"You can use my sitar?" he wondered in surprise.
I shrugged. "Now I can."
"That's cool! C'mon let's go find some bandages and then you can play with me." (2) I smiled as the blonde limped down the hall and I followed to patch him up. What a day!
(1) Sorry, I'm not very good at descriptions but you know what I'm talking about, right?
(2) Yeah, I kind of worded that wrong when I originally wrote this but KissyNae laughed so hard when she heard it that I thought I should leave it in there. Hope it made you smile. :D
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